The Middle East and Brazil : perspectives on the new global south / edited by Paul Amar.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Amar, Paul (Paul Edouard), 1968- author, editor.

Series:

Public cultures of the Middle East and North Africa.

Public cultures of the Middle East and North Africa

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Muslims--Brazil--History.

Muslims.

Muslims--Brazil--Ethnic identity.

Transnationalism--Social aspects--Brazil.

Transnationalism.

Transnationalism--Political aspects--Brazil.

Transnationalism in literature.

Brazilian literature--History and criticism.

Brazilian literature.

Middle East--Relations--Brazil.

Middle East.

Brazil--Relations--Middle East.

Brazil.

Brazil--Ethnic relations--History.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (650 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Bloomington : Indiana University Press, [2014]

Language Note:

English

Summary:

"With its new political and cultural affiliations with the Middle East and the renewed visibility of the country's millions of practicing Muslims and those with Middle Eastern roots, Brazil may offer valuable lessons for countries transformed by the "Arab Spring." This groundbreaking collection reveals the historical links between these two world regions, describes the emergence of new South-South solidarities, and offers new methodologies for the study of transnationalism, global culture, and international relations"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

The Middle East and Brazil : transregional politics in the Dilma Rousseff era / Paul Amar

The summit of South America-Arab States : historical contexts of South-South solidarity and exchange / Paulo Daniel Elias Farah

Brazil's Relations with the Middle East in the "oil shock" era : pragmatism, universalism, and developmentalism in the 1970s / Carlos Ribeiro Santana

Palestine-Israel controversies in the 1970s and the birth of Brazilian transregionalism / Monique Sochaczewski

Terrorist frontier cell or cosmopolitan commercial hub? : the Arab and Muslim presence at the border of Paraguay, Brazil, and Argentina / Fernando Rabossi

Tropical Orientalism : Brazil's race debates and the Sephardi-Moorish Atlantic / Ella Shohat and Robert Stam

Slave barracks aristocrats : Islam and the Orient in the work of Gilberto Freyre / Alexandra Isfahani-Hammond

Islamic transnationalism and anti-slavery movements : the Malê Rebellion as debated by Brazil's press, 1835-1838 / José T. Cairus

A transnational intellectual sphere : Brazil and Its Middle Eastern populations / María del Mar Logroño Narbona

The politics of anti-Zionism and racial democracy in homeland tourism / John Tofik Karam

Rio de Janeiro's global bazaar : Syrian, Lebanese, and Chinese merchants in the Saara / Neiva Vieira da Cunha and Pedro Paulo Thiago de Mello

Muslim identities in Brazil : engaging local and transnational spheres / Paulo Gabriel Hilu da Rocha Pinto

Telenovelas and Muslim identities in Brazil / Silvia M. Montenegro

Turco peddlers, Brazilian plantationists, and transnational Arabs : the genre triangle of Levantine-Brazilian literature / Silvia C. Ferreira

Multiple homelands : heritage and migrancy in Brazilian Mahjari literature Armando Vargas

Orientalism in Milton Hatoum's fiction / Daniela Birman

Arab-Brazilian literature : Alberto Mussa's Mu[AYN]allaqa and South-South dialogue / Wail S. Hassan.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

0-253-01496-4

OCLC:

908146090